Full Catch Diorama by Nick Salomon

Author:Nick Salomon [Salomon, Nick]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781733148504
Publisher: Blue Bench Press, LLC
Published: 2019-07-09T22:00:00+00:00

Moving On To Other Opportunities

I have a love-hate relationship with coffee. On the one hand, I do appreciate the flavor despite its bitterness. On the other, well, coffee makes me jittery and emotional. I avoid it as much as I can, especially when I know I’m going to be tested on my ability to keep my cool, like a job interview or public speaking. But today, I’m too hammered, having slept only three hours after spending a long evening coding like crazy at Lucy’s apartment. We didn’t even fuck again but at least we got the marketplace going. We still have to figure out marketing, translations, international markets and new content but it’s a good start.

The Dreamax lunch room feels so empty. It’s 9:15 AM and there should be at least a dozen slaves chatting away the first couple hours of their workday. Fascinating discussions about fantasy football and the latest Instagram trend should be overheard around the room, but instead I’m by myself, adding a second sugar substitute packet to my mug. Oh well, less PDF readers to install, I suppose.

It’s a day not much different than any other. Steve hasn’t poked me yet. The boss man usually comes around this time to discuss the daily list of PDF reader installations and whatever else will keep me busy for the day. Maybe he figured I’m still recovering from yesterday’s ‘sickness’. I’m typing some ticket reports and already can feel my hands subtly shaking as the effects of the caffeine kick in. Boy, I sure hope nothing stressful happens today.

“Helloooooo…” says Linda from HR in her distinctive acute vocal fry, forcing me to look up past the wall of my cubicle. Just the tone of her high-pitched screeching voice slightly enrages me. I can feel my right eyelid twitching but must remain calm. Must promote synergy and all that.

“Hey, Linda. How can I help you?”

“Good morning, Teeeeeed. I heard you weren’t feeling very well yessssterdaaayyyyy,” she says with the widest, fakest smile she seems capable of mustering.

“Yeah,” I say, reclining back on my chair, giving myself a little massage on the belly. “Guess I ate something that had been dead for too long.”

Lifestyle vegetarians. Too easy to push their buttons. I see the faintest sign the fake smile might drop but by God she has the temperament of a bull and keeps it up, then says, “oh no! I hope you’re feeling better now!”

“Yeah, I am, thanks. Nothing like a bottle of Pepto and easy access to the restroom to get it all out.”

“I’m so happy to hear thaaaaaaat,” she says, tilting her head to the side like puppies do. Makes me wonder if puppies learned it from people or, since people find the gesture cute, they appropriated it from the animals. “Say, could you come to my office for a minute?”

“Oh, I’m very sorry but I’m in the middle of something. But feel free to open a ticket and we’ll get right back at you.”

“No worries, it’s not a computer probleeeeeeeem.

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